CVE-2004-1316

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Heap-based buffer overflow in MSG_UnEscapeSearchUrl in nsNNTPProtocol.cpp for Mozilla 1.7.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an NNTP URL (news:) with a trailing '\' (backslash) character, which prevents a string from being NULL terminated.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-29 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-05-03 01:29:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Mozilla

Mozilla Mozilla 1.3

1.3

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4

1.4

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4a

1.4

Mozilla Mozilla 1.4.1

1.4.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 alpha

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 rc1

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 rc2

1.5

Mozilla Mozilla 1.5.1

1.5.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.6

1.6

Mozilla Mozilla 1.6 alpha

1.6

Mozilla Mozilla 1.6 beta

1.6

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 alpha

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 beta

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 rc1

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 rc2

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 rc3

1.7

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.1

1.7.1

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.2

1.7.2

Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.3

1.7.3

References

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

20041229 Heap overflow in Mozilla Browser <= 1.7.3 NNTP code.

HPSBTU01114

19823

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

SUSE-SA:2006:004

RHSA-2005:038